CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5242

Published: Jun 07, 2016 | Modified: Nov 28, 2016
CVSS 3.x
5.6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.7 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xen Xen 4.4.0 (including) 4.4.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.4.0-rc1 (including) 4.4.0-rc1 (including)
Xen Xen 4.4.1 (including) 4.4.1 (including)
Xen Xen 4.4.2 (including) 4.4.2 (including)
Xen Xen 4.4.3 (including) 4.4.3 (including)
Xen Xen 4.4.4 (including) 4.4.4 (including)
Xen Xen 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.5.1 (including) 4.5.1 (including)
Xen Xen 4.5.2 (including) 4.5.2 (including)
Xen Xen 4.5.3 (including) 4.5.3 (including)
Xen Xen 4.6.0 (including) 4.6.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.6.1 (including) 4.6.1 (including)
Xen Ubuntu devel *
Xen Ubuntu trusty *
Xen Ubuntu wily *
Xen Ubuntu xenial *

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